Johannes S. Sistermanns

Johannes S. Sistermanns 2008

Johannes S. Sistermanns (born October 9, 1955 in Cologne ) is a German composer and sound artist.

biography

From 1976 to 1984 Sistermanns studied rhythmics with Holmrike Leiser at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , piano / piano improvisation with Klaus Runze and composition and 'new music theater' with Mauricio Kagel . In 1977 he took singing lessons in North Indian raga music with Jyotishi Chitteranjan at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and with Pandit TL Rana and Shrimati Kalpana Chatterjee in Kolkatta. 1979–1981 he also learned overtone singing from Jochen Vetter. 1981–82 Composition seminar with Juan Allende-Blin and Prof. Klaus Schöning WDR Cologne 'Studio Akustische Kunst'. In 1984/85 he studied philosophy with Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann , Martin Heidegger's last private assistant at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1989 Sistermanns received his doctorate in musicology at the University of Osnabrück with Hans Christian Schmidt-Banse on "Media-specific directing concepts for the visualization of opera on television" IMZ Internationales Musikzentrum Wien . 1993–1996 he also studied singing with Stephen Cheng in New York using his method "The Tao of Voice - East-Western Approach".

From 1977 onwards he spent longer periods of work and fellowships in the USA, North India, Australia, Japan and the PR China. He lived in Paris 1991/92 with a scholarship from the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur, Düsseldorf, today Kunststiftung NRW , where he met Luc Ferrari , in New York 1995/96, Adelaide / Melbourne 1997/2000 Individual artist scholarship Ministry of Culture NRW and Kyoto / Kyoto Tokyo 2001 artist grant ( Japan Foundation ).

In 1993 he was a founding member and board member of the transition room eV in Cologne. 1997-2010 he acted as 2nd chairman of the DEGEM German Society for Electroacoustic Music .

He was also a founding member of the Academy for West-Eastern Dialogue of Cultures in 2019 . Since 2019 Sistermanns has been a delegate of the Society for New Music GNM in the German Cultural Council Berlin.

Artistic practice

His work consists of an installation sound plastic, audio piece and electro-acoustic composition for 2-8 / 43 [Klangdom ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe] up to 2704 loudspeakers of wave field synthesis (electronic studio) TU Berlin , live satellite / internet / sound Performance, graphic notation and instrumental composition. At the beginning of the 2000s, based on the idea of a 'sound installation', he developed the concept of KlangPlastik as a multi-media spatial process that no longer uses conventional loudspeakers. Instead, since 1997 he has been transmitting his compositions using piezo loudspeakers and transducers directly to resonant room walls, windows, everyday material and analog musical instruments themselves, as in "UNSTRUMENT" for symphony orchestra, premiered by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg at the "rainy days" festival in 2012, Philharmonic Luxembourg . The instruments of the symphony orchestra are played and resonate without a musician playing the instruments on stage.

Sistermanns does not exclude any medium, place, material, space, instrument and impulse in order to include all meaningful media in his art practice.

Here he acts from a potential space. It is no longer the limits of the material composition of instruments or spaces that are constitutive for this potential space, but rather the informational power of the individual's perception.

Performances, sound space projects, performances (selection)

Sistermanns composes commissioned works for festivals, broadcasters, ensembles and instrumental soloists. He has been invited to international festivals around the world with his spatial works of art and sound sculptures.

1979 German premiere in collaboration with John Cage of 'Musicircus' at the 'Tage Neuer Musik' festival in Bonn, realized by Walter Zimmermann .
1995 Knitting Factory New York
1997 A Global Garden for Percy Live-Satellite-Performance - Frankfurt-Melbourne with Ros Bandt, Percy-Grainger-Museum Melbourne, Musikhochschule Frankfurt, Goethe Institute, Melbourne, Melbourne Festival 1997, broadcast live in 'The Listening Room', ABC Radio Sydney
1997 Solo concert by the Goethe-Institut Tokyo
1998 January 19 Rio Ma (with Kazuya Ishigami, Osaka) Xebec Hall Kobe / Goethe-Institut Kyoto
1998 Light Dream 6th International Audio Art Festival 'Warsaw
1999 19.1 Rion Ma Tallinn Art Hall. Latvia
2000 A l'interieur de la vue 'EXPO 2000' World Exhibition, German Pavilion Hanover
2001 etc electric tea ceremony Winds Café, Winds Gallery, Tokyo / Japan
2003 sonic blue red tracings (with Ros Bandt) tube Klanggalerie, Munich
2003 Prometheus - After the Görlitz fire project of the 2010 Capital of Culture application
2004 Inter vue 42nd International Summer Courses Darmstadt ', IMD
2006 ISCM World New Music Festival 2006 ', Stuttgart
2008 horizon 'INVENTIONEN' / 'SMC 08' Berlin
2009 Blinman ‚Klangbiennale2 ', HR Radio Frankfurt
2011 Sound Goes Surface Solo Concert MUSICARAMA Festival Hong Kong
2012 RestRisiko Biennale Bern, Bern Minster
2013 etc_random Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
2017 UN \ PLI HARVESTWORKS New York City
2017 QUESTIONING THE ECHO New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival New York City
2017 Room Atmos Romanesque Summer, Schnütgen Museum Cologne
2018 Solo Concert Meion Ongakusei Music Festival Nagoya
2019 Grand Silence (UnPiano Trio} MONA Museum of Old and New Art Hobart / Tasmania
2020 UnExpecteD Street UnFest, Singapore

Audio pieces (selection)

Since 1983 he has been producing international sound features and radio plays for radio stations such as WDR3 Studio Akustische Kunst, DLR Deutschlandradio , SWR2 , hr2-kultur , ORF1 Kunstradio-Radiokunst , ABC Sydney Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Yleisradio Finland, VPRO Hilversum.

Sound art / sound art exhibitions (selection)

1994 the moment of the room, Kunstraum Wuppertal
1996 Der Resonanzmensch, Donaueschinger Musiktage 1996
1997 LICHTUNG, KlangGalerie SFB Berlin
In 1999 space alone exceeded the Donaueschinger Musiktage 1999
2000 warming up of living rooms Adelaide Festival 2000
2001 the room tune music protocol / Steirischer Herbst, Graz
2002 white taste Feld short black Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne
2002 6y apartment Theater der Welt, Duisburg
2003 Foyer acoustique Opera of the City of Cologne
2003 nothing is looking for something Singuhr Hörgalerie, Parochialkirche Berlin
2008 listen to the Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl (German Sound Art Prize)
2010 INTUITION Room 2010 Sydney ISCM 2010 World New Music Days, Sydney
2010 INTUITION Room 2010 Bucarest SIMN 2010, International Week of New Music, Bucarest
2011 more Brühler Kunstverein , Brühl / Rhld., Together with Gudrun Kemsa [Video]
2012 Sa vertical SA [mobile KlangPlastik] SASA Gallery, Adelaide [mobile KlangPlastik]
2012 lerchenfliessen [mobile KlangPlastik] Sound Barrier Festival, Vienna
2012 Draft John Cage | 100 | Darmstadt Central Station, Darmstadt International Music Institute
2012 Edge of the forest 1 - 3 [2 immobile / 1 mobile KlangPlastik] 6th Int. Forest Art Trail / Schader Foundation / Centralstation (Darmstadt)
2012 Ode to Beet (in Kagel'S Beethoven room) Kunstmuseum Bochum exhibition 'Fluxus Ruhrgebiet
2015 INTUITION SpaceFolding PSAS Art Space Fremantle / Totally Huge New Music Festival, Perth
2015 INTUITION ROOM 2015 MOFO FESTIVAL MONA Museum of Old and New Art Hobart / Tasmania
2016 Ma Un Ma Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016
2018 ma meta Honen-in Temple Kyoto
2020 ma meta [Marl] Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl
2020 Room is score Künstlerforum Bonn [BTHVN2020 / 250. Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven]

Teaching (selection)

Sistermanns held visiting lectureships (selection) at the Cologne International School of Design KISD , architecture professorship ETH Zurich , at the Mediencampus Dieburg Technical University Darmstadt , degree program CAP and media / composition Bern University of the Arts , Music Department Shanghai Conservatory of Music , teaching assignments ( HKU Hong Kong , Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore NAFA , University of Adelaide ), held lectures and workshops at art colleges and universities (including Cologne Kobe Mulhouse Beijing Paris Breda Rome Strasbourg Tokyo New York Sydney Melbourne Seattle). At the International Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music , he was a lecturer in the “phonie” project in 2004 and 2006, together with Stefan Fricke, Cathy Milliken, Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch . As an 'external expert', he studied media / composition in 2008–19 at the Bern University of the Arts.

Artistic Director

As Artistic Director, he realized the Academy 'Experimental Musiktheater 3' at the European Center for the Arts in Hellerau / Dresden in 2010–11 and in 2013 the student project 'CollAge' at the Eight Bridge Festival in the Cologne Philharmonic .

Awards

"Simultaneously", composition prize ORF Radio + TRANSIT Innsbruck (1995)
Karl Sczuka Prize SWR Baden-Baden (1997)
Prize for composers and performers "Blue Bridge" - honorable mention by the jury (2001)
German Sound Art Prize 2008 WDR Cologne, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, Initiative Hören
2nd prize Kehl memorial competition Kehl memorial / KlangPlastik (with D. Zurnieden) (2003)
Prix Phonurgia Nova 2013 Ausculta Audio Play [SWR] Finalist - Paris (2013)
Prix Palmarès Ausculta [SWR] Mention Special / Listening Proposal EBU / Ars Acustica Group (2013)
Prize of the German Record Critics CD: Ausculta nomination in the field: Grenzgänger (2014)
Children to Olympus! Prize for the CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THE COUNTRIES / DEUTSCHE BANK Foundation (2014)
FOREVER NOW Award Winner Golden Record 'Project: Forever Now, Golden Record into Orbit - Aphids, Melbourne (2015)
Featured Composer 12th THNMF Totally Huge New Music Festival Perth (2015)
Prix PRESQUE RIEN 2015 3rd Prize, La Muse En Circuit / Association PRESQUE RIEN [Luc Ferrari] Paris (2015)
1st Prize 'Leibniz Harmonies' International Composition Competition, music for today / Hanover (2016)
2nd prize 'dokKa KurzDoku' International Documentary Festival Karlsruhe (2017)
Prize winner 'kinoKLANG' SWR2 / International Film / Audio Documentary Festival Karlsruhe (2018)
Selected composer CD competition 'TRANSIT' - DEGEM / Edition DEGEM ed17
1st prize 'dokKa KurzDoku' SWR2 / Internationales Film- / Hör-Dokumentarfestival Karlsruhe (2019)
GERMAN MUSIKAUTORENPREIS 2020 nomination / award ceremony autumn 2020

Scholarships / Residencies

1987 Brahms Scholarship - Brahmshaus / Brahms Society, Baden-Baden
1991/92 foreign scholarship (Paris) - Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW, Düsseldorf
1995 Foreign scholarship (USA) - Ministry of Culture NRW, Düsseldorf
1996 Foreign scholarship (Australia) - Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW, Düsseldorf
1997/98 work grant - Filmstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
1998 Foreign scholarship (Japan) - Ministry of Culture, NRW Düsseldorf
1999 Working grant - Heinrich Strobel Foundation SWR Freiburg
1999/2000 work grant - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin
2000 Artist-in-Residence - Contemporary Art Center of South Australia (CACSA), Adelaide, Australia
2001 Working grant - Filmstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2001 Artist Fellowship - The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Artist-in-Residence - European Capital of Culture [competition], Görlitz
2004 Working grant - Filmstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2006 Working grant - Filmstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2008 Composer-in-Residence - VICC-Visby International Center for Composers, Gotland / Sweden
2008 Composer-in-Residence - EMS Studio Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Artist-in-Residence - Wakayama University, Japan
2008/09 Composition grant - ZKM, Karlsruhe
2010 Artist-in-Residence - Australian Experimental Art Foundation, AEAF Adelaide, SA Australia
2011 Artist-in-Residence - IWZ International Forest Art Center, Darmstadt
2012 Composition grant - Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Ministry of Culture Lower Saxony
2013 Artist-in-Residence - ARTSOURCE, Fremantle WA Australia
2015 Composer-in-Residence - Decibel Ensemble, Perth WA Australia
2015 Artist-in-Residence PSAS Art Space, Fremantle WA Australia
2016 Artist-in-Residence Atelier Klangforschung, University of Würzburg
2018 Ensemble-in-Residence Miasto Orgrodow, Katowice Poland [Ensemble UnPiano]
2019 Composer-in-Residence SOUNDSTREAM Adelaide SA Australia

Discography (selection)

CD solo / duo

1998 Just And Thongs Go Towards Blue (NurNichtNur)
2003 Xix Mikado (edition sistermanns)
2004 etc _random (artist.cd, Wergo)
2006 Sistermanns KL Edition Sistermanns ES 753002 LC 00438
2012 tracings with Ros Bandt / Melbourne artist.cd/ WERGO81202 LC 00846
2013 Ausculta Edition Sistermanns ES 753004 LC 00438

CD compilation

2000 sound art in Germany (Wergo)
2005 A No Rack (Cybele)
2006 Ü3_04 (Wergo)
2007 Orpheus sings the net (Cybele)

2007 disappear / appear (aphasia rec.)
2007 Orpheus sings the net (Cybele)
2007/2009 Klangort in: Hearing Places Sound, Place, Time and Culture by Ros Bandt ISBN 1-84718-255-0
2010 search for nothing in: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg / dvd 9 ISBN 978-3-939583-23-3
2012 Ludwig japonaise [CD: BrokenBeethoven] HayaniMüsik, Istanbul MH-G7-012 LC -
2012 air flow [CD: Breathing Life] EKR 002 2012
2014 Aroona still DEGEM CD12 / EDITION DEGEM ed03 LC 27648
2016 Raum_aufgabe_1 DEGEM CD14 / EDITION DEGEM ed05 LC 27648
2019 TRANSIT DEGEM CD17 / EDITION DEGEM ed17 LC 27648

DVD

2004 delayed - electric tea (artist.cd, Wergo)
2006 what happens to god when i'm dead (edition sistermanns)

Works

Book publications

A l'intérieur de la vue , Johannes S. Sistermanns, WeltinnenRaum of a tone. Neues Musiktheater (2000), EXPO 2000 world exhibition, photo book with an essay by Stefan Fricke, Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2001, ISBN 3-89727-135-4
Fragmen 45 , Contributions to New Music (Ed. Stefan Fricke), Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2005, ISBN 3-89727-308-X
Concise 1 - Sound Plastic , Positions on Contemporary Music (ed. Stefan Fricke), Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 978-3-89727-345-0
Hearing places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture , edited by Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. This book first published 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, ISBN 1-84718-255-0

2010 Soundart in Berlin - Singuhr Hoergalerie in Parochial (Eds. Carsten Seiffarth, Markus Steffens), Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-939583-23-3 .

Radio plays

2014 taxi

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Sistermanns, Johannes S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German composer and sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne